Children of Garth and Edna - Mary

Ann Mary Beckington, was the seventh child of Garth and Edna and was born on November 11, 1919 in Willis, on Whittaker Road at the family home. The name Ann, is from Edna's mother's sister, Frances Ann (Frankie) Hazelton Burke. Mary is from Edna's mother, Mary Ella (Ella) Hazelton Childs. She was always known as Mary to the family. Mary went through 11th grade at Lincoln High School before her parents moved to the Saline farm on Bemis Road, the summer before her senior year. She quit school her senior year as she didn't liked Saline High School. She met John Frederick Seitz from Saline and they married on September 15, 1940 in Saline. John quit school in the 8th grade, his mother died when he was six and eventually had to help support his two younger siblings. John served in the U.S. Naval Service for two years during WWII. When he returned, he started United Roofing in Saline. He ran the business until he died. Mary and Johnny had five children. Christine Ella, born in 1951, died at the age of two from pneumonia and a burst appendix. Two girls and two boys survived to adulthood. Mary died on June 12, 1999 in Saline. Johnny remarried December 5, 1999. He died on May 22, 2007. Their youngest son, Roy Frederick, born on November 13, 1954, died on March 1, 2008, leaving a wife and two sons. John and Mary are buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Saline, Michigan.